re: #519 thebigolddog

During that period the Republicans took control of both houses of Congress since 1947.

Reagan never had the House, and lost the Senate in the waning years of his 2nd term; neither were regained by Bush Sr. The Contract With America allowed the Repubs to take both of them back during Clinton’s first term, but when it became clear after a dozen years that the Repubs weren’t living up to it, both bodies reverted to the Dems during the waning years of Bush Jr.’s 2nd term, and it’s only gotten worse since. The 110th and 111th Congress are solid Dem, for the first time since 1993 (103rd) and the second time since 1977 and 1979 (95th and 96th), when they and Carter gifted us with 21% annual inflation.